Animation

When was the last morning you heard a Saturday morning cartoon open with background music from Leo Delibes’s opera Lakme?

That’s the voice of Sterling Holloway (who later would play Winnie-the-Pooh) here as the stork who’s delivering a big bundle of joy to Mrs. Jumbo on the circus train. Today’s the birthday of Walt Disney’s “Dumbo” which had its premier in 1941.